comparaison — meaning in English
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English meaning
- comparison noun An act of comparing two or more things, or the result of doing so.
- resemblance noun A similarity in appearance or qualities between two things or people.
- simile noun A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using a linking word such as 'like' or 'as', in order to make a description more vivid.
Senses
comparaison is used for these senses in English:
- comparison (grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
- resemblance A comparison; a simile.
- simile A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.